Have you been poor at math? Have you ever thought
math is too difficult to study well? Mesopotamian
created the first math system. With the
development of agriculture, people could grow
more food than they really needed. So they
started to sell them out to others. Now you can
understand why math is required in our lives. It
is very important.Mesopotamia also created a great
achievement on Math. But have you wondered why
math appeared? Math is an important skill for us
to learn.
Mathematics in
Mesopotamia grew out of the necessities of
record-keeping for administrative and trade
purposes. Starting around 7000, we find the use
of clay tokens to represent stores and traded
goods. To begin with, one token would represent
one sheep, or one unit of grain. The next step
was the development of symbols as a shorthand to
stand for different quantities, so a sphere or
pyramid of clay would mean, say, 5 or 10 sheep or
units of grain.
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Using one thing to change another thing with
others happened in past. But we know that the
price of one thing should be decided to become
the same in one society , so they made a system
to do the sell work....To keep a secure record of a
transaction, the tokens were sealed inside a clay
envelope. The outside of the envelope was marked
with the tokens, so that you would know what was
inside without having to break the envelope.
Anyone reading the outside of the envelope was
reading marks of shorthand symbols. Learning to
manipulate the marks and create further
generalizations and abstractions is the story of
mathematics.
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